προθύμως
prothýmōs · G4290 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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eager, eagerly, willing, willingly
Pertaining to being eager to do something
Examples1 Peter 5:2 shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not with greed but with eagerness;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἑκουσίως hekousíōs · G1596 · willing, willingly, of one’s own free will
- The adverb ἑκουσίως expresses voluntary, willing action, closely parallel to προθύμως. Both denote acting with willingness, though ἑκουσίως emphasizes the voluntary nature of the choice while προθύμως emphasizes the eager readiness of the disposition.
In the other Testament 1 word
- נָדַב nâdab · H5068 · to impel, to urge, to incite
- The Hebrew verb נָדַב (nadab) expresses the concept of voluntary, willing action and free-will offering, semantically matching the Greek adverb προθύμως which denotes willing readiness and alacrity. Both terms capture the notion of acting with eager willingness rather than compulsion.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Eager, eagerly, willing, willingly25.69
- The adverb describes an action performed eagerly or willingly. Peter's exhortation to the elders uses this term: “shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not with greed but with eagerness” (1 Peter 5:2).
Word family 22 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb, from Herodotus and Aeschylus down, willingly, with alacrity: 1 Pet 5:2.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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